BOUQUETS >> To Eric R. Schnur, on being named as the new chief executive officer and chairman of Lubrizol Corp.

Schnur, who also will continue in his previous role as president of the Wickliffe-based specialty chemicals company, succeeds James L. Hambrick as CEO and chairman. This planned management transition, which took effect Jan. 2, was announced in mid-2016.

Schnur, a Kirtland Hills resident, has been with the company more than 27 years. He was named Lubrizol’s president and chief operating officer on June 1 of last year, having previously served as president of the Lubrizol Advanced Materials business segment for eight years.

He joined the company as an engineer in research and development, and progressed through a variety of technical and commercial positions in the Lubrizol Additives and Lubrizol Advanced Materials business segments.

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Schnur also worked at several domestic and global company facilities, including the Lubrizol Additives site in Singapore, where he led Engine Oils marketing and technical services for Southeast Asia and Australia.

It’s clear that Schnur has worked his way through the ranks at Lubrizol and proven himself as an outstanding leader. We congratulate him on reaching the top of the company’s organizational chart and are confident that he’ll do a fine job as CEO and chairman.

BOUQUETS >> To the Lake County Free Clinic, on being named Ohio’s Free Clinic of the Year by the state Department of Health.

House Bill 320, which was passed in 2014, marks December as Free Clinic Appreciation Month and designates one of the Ohio’s 52 clinics as the Free Clinic of the Year.

That legislation was introduced by state Rep. Ron Young, R-Leroy Township, who said he isn’t surprised that the Lake County Free Clinic is being honored.

“I think it’s been the best of the best for many years,” he said.

The Lake County Free Clinic is able to provide an “exceptional” quality of care, leveraging the resources they have, said Johanna Henz, the organization’s executive director.

For every $1 received, Henz said they’re able to provide $10 worth of care. The Free Clinic works with about $500,000 a year and provides nearly $5 million worth of services. It provided 22,000 medical and dental services in 2016.

The Lake County Free Clinic opened in 1971 and at any time has between 35 and 50 volunteers working at the clinic.

Though the clinic is seeing an increase in patients, Henz said the Free Clinic is still not that well known. She hopes the Free Clinic of the Year distinction helps increase its exposure.

We believe that the Lake County Free Clinic certainly deserves more attention and special recognition for earning this prestigious statewide award.

BRICKBATS >> To Demetrius Ford of Akron, after he was sentenced to eight years in prison for injuring his 4-month-old daughter when he intentionally submerged her in scalding water.

Ford received that prison term on Dec. 27 in Summit County Common Pleas Court after he was convicted of felonious assault and two counts of child endangering in November.

Prosecutors say Ford was bathing his daughter in February when he dunked her in hot water and she suffered burns to her face. Investigators also concluded that the girl sustained a skull fracture and several broken ribs.

The Akron man was 17 at the time of the incident. He was tried as an adult.

It’s too bad that the judge couldn’t have sentenced Ford to be submerged in scalding water, so he could experience firsthand the horrible pain he inflicted on his daughter.

BRICKBATS >> To Robert Jarvis of Akron, after he received a four-year prison term for the fatal beating of a man at an Akron bar.

Jarvis was sentenced Dec. 28 in Summit County Common Pleas Court for the death of Forrest Ryan, 43, of North Canton. At the sentencing, Judge Todd McKenney said Jarvis didn’t intend to kill Ryan in the bar fight.

He pleaded guilty in a plea deal in November to involuntary manslaughter, a first-degree felony, and faced up to 11 years in prison.

Prosecutors say the two men got into an argument Jan. 8 over the volume of the music that Jarvis was playing in his work as a DJ at the Zodiac bar. They say surveillance video showed Jarvis later sought out Ryan in another part of the bar and punched him three times in the head.